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This is my daily art blog.
I'm artist Dee Sanchez and I live and work in Alameda, New Mexico - the land of blue skies, red hills, and three unique cultures.
What a beautiful place to paint! Join me on my daily painting quest, my plein air adventures, my video logs, my "getting ready for a show" preparations, my painting tips, and I may even throw in an opinion or two...I also document my struggles with getting healthy and my crazy family life

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sometimes You Just Gotta Take a DayTrip

Sometimes You Just Gotta Take a Day Trip

I am one of the world's greatest procrastinators.

Other artists will tell me, "Oh, you're so prolific," and I really feel anything but.

Right now my schedule is so full that I lay awake thinking about all the things I have to do and want to do.

~create a large piece as an installation for New Day, a wonderful facility for youth and families

~start working on April Weems Show, Flowers and Still Life

~create 143 paintings for my 150 CHALLENGE Show that opens June 1 (biggie)

~try to throw a few daily paintings into the schedule

~paint an 8x10 commission of sunflowers

~finish up painting commissions for my friend and collector (about 8)

~finish a long-awaited painting of Mariachis for my brother (he's probably given up by now)

~write an article about the 150 Challenge for a national art magazine

~paint a painting for my sister-in-law for being nice enough to create wedding invitations for my daughter (she got married almost two years ago)

~create ten little paintings on cards as part of the Women and Creativity for the National Hispanic Cultural Center (I paint ten cards, mail them in, and I get ten different ones back - all from different artists)

~paint a birdhouse for a fundraiser - and I'm ashamed to say that I can't remember the cause

And that's only through April

Now you know why I have to just pack up and leave for the day sometimes. I come back energized and inspired and ready to take on the world. Well, at least the art world.

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